MLT Club Member David Herrick
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For the last hour of January 14th, the public livestream is at V = 28896 and C = 1537. (The C values are going to be insanely high because the video is so long!)
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This graph shows the same information as the previous one, but for the MLT original songs. They follow the same sort of trend, but notice that the scaling is different.
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Okay, just two more graphs summarizing 2023, and then I’ll shut up.
This one shows the day-to-day variations in the number of views for the first ten days for all the videos of cover songs that MLT released in 2023. The rather pathologic looking one is She Loves You, which was victimized by the hack on day seven.
For math nerds only: the number of views is plotted logarithmically in order to separate the lines more cleanly and to illustrate the quasi-exponential nature of the falloff.
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Recent data for Kansas City:
For January 7th, V = 2750 and C = 6.84. For January 8th, V = 1406 and C = 3.50. For January 9th, V = 997 and C = 2.48. For January 10th, V = 817 and C = 2.03. And for January 11th, V = 864 and C = 2.15.
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Yes, Bud. Go to the upper right corner of your message block, click on the three vertical dots, and click on “edit”.
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Sure, Jacki, I’d be happy to collaborate with you!
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Well, Weird Al was helped a lot by the fact that he had a band, a commanding stage presence, and a talent for making videos!
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Thanks, Tim! Yeah, that was about four years ago. I have a few others collecting dust in the early pages of the forum, including “Spoon”, “I Don’t Know Words That Well”, and “Clothes to You”.
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The poem John starts reading at 0:52 reminds me of some that my brother wrote in high school with the same meter. He was taking an English class in which they were exposed to medieval English poetry. He saw that the language was basically a mix of English (with some vowel changes) and German, and immediately set about writing faux medieval poems about his class.
Here are the first couple of stanzas of one of them that I ended up memorizing. It has to do with how his teacher was notoriously slow in grading and returning assignments. (I can’t promise that everything is spelled correctly!)
Thar gop, fro grenz Kentokie land, a mensch of bierded vige,
Wo tot a littrie taempers klass, und Inglisch ballid mige.
Und gop thar auk twa stuident folk, wo twintie yar agoo
Haed into him thar papirs tirnt, und bak them ne’er recoo.
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I never thought I’d say this, but I have something in common with John Lennon! I’m not much of a poetry aficionado (cover your ears, Jacki!), but I’ve always enjoyed Jabberwocky. I read once that Lewis Carroll wrote it as a way of making fun of the pretentiousness of a lot of the poetry of his time.
What I really like about it is that the nonsense words that still somehow seem to “work” are a different way (other than singing) to use the voice as an instrument to communicate meaning beyond actual words.
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The ability of Chicago to play these songs live and sound so much like the studio versions is amazing! I tend to assume that with so many instruments involved, they would carefully record each one separately and then mix the best takes together. But no, they’re a real orchestra!
I’ve said this before, but incorporating traditional band instruments into pop music just delights me, to the extent that many of my favorite songs have acquired that status specifically because of the use of those instruments.
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I guess that’s my cue to re-post my song parody!
“Quiche Lorraine” (to the tune of “Sweet Lorraine”):
The temperature I’ve set at four twenty-five
To pre-heat: not one degree less.
In the ice chest I’ve concluded my quest
For some meat. It’s bacon, I guess.
I’m tired of eating by convention. Too many hamburgers to mention.
Can’t keep this urge on a leash: I would die for a quiche.
With onions and peas, and some eggs and Swiss cheese,
It would seem it ought to be nice.
Completing my plan, to the crust in the pan
I add cream, pepper, salt, and some spice.
This is exactly what I’m after. I feel my heart is beating faster.
A voice deep inside me says “Sheesh, I would kill for a quiche.”
Oh, quiche Lorraine: a pretty nice meal. Just follow the recipe.
Spicy or plain, the taste will make you go insane.
I get out a plate, and I sit there and wait,
Knowing soon I’m gonna be fed.
A fork would be right, but I’m thinking I might
Use a spoon for it instead.
I grab an oven mitt and holder. I cannot wait till it gets colder.
I open the door and I reach, and I pull out my quiche.
Oh, quiche Lorraine: a pretty nice meal. Just follow the recipe.
Spicy or plain, the taste will make you go insane.
(instrumental break)
My mouth is open and swinging toward the spoonful I am bringing.
My lips are allowing the breach. Now I’m eating my quiche.
Oh, quiche Lorraine: a pretty nice meal. Just follow the recipe.
Spicy or plain, the taste will make you giddy.
Oh, quiche Lorraine: a pretty nice meal. What a gift to humanity.
Spicy or plain, the taste will make you giddy.
Get your fingers sticky. Quiche will make you go insane.
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Juergen, these monkeys remind me of some that I learned about in a psychology class I took in college.
Researchers wanted to find out whether the monkeys could be taught the idea of financial responsibility. So they trained them to use a sort of vending machine where they insert tokens to dispense food. Then each day the researchers would give each monkey a certain number of tokens.
Some of the monkeys would immediately spend all their money, pig out on food, and go hungry the rest of the day. Some of them would buy food only when they were hungry. And most surprisingly, some of them invented prostitution!
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Shortly after I first discovered the Beatles, my brother bought a copy of In His Own Write and would read from it aloud while doing a spot-on vocal impression of John. Frankly I found that even more entertaining than the Beatles’ music!
I never understood the title of A Spaniard in the Works until a few months ago when Mona and Lisa used the word “spanner” in one of their posts. I looked it up and found that that’s the British term for a wrench.
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Thanks, Tomás. It actually occurred to me yesterday that I could be doing these with “Print Screen” rather than taking photos… and then I forgot today!